By waynerd on

Hello all,
Firstly I am new to the whole Drupal community (just installed Drupal 6 for a site) but I'm excited to learn more and still trying to wrap my head around everything. My apologies if my questions start off stupid.

I'm building a web site that requires a user, when registering, to pick between 1-4 different "categories" of user. IE: are you a butcher, a baker or candlestick maker? Once they select one they get a user registration and profile form that is custom to their selection with different form fields than the others. Of course I'd hope the information in their profiles and form fields is search able.

Is there a module out there already that allows me to build this? I did some searching and was able to find the right answer, at least one that I can understand anyway. Is the CCK the first step?

Any and all help is appreciated, Thanks fellow Drupalites, (or is it Druplonians?)
Wayne

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vegagitator commented

With the Auto Assign Role module users can select from the roles you allow them to. To enable or disable a given profile field for a specific role use the Profile Role module. If you want to set some fields as required for some roles but not others, you will need to create different custom node types for each user using the Content Construction Kit. In that case you might find the Rolespecific Node module and possibly the Content Profile module useful (if it allows you to define more than one kind of node as a content profile, or at least one per role. I don't know about this.).

I hope that helps. From a fellow Drupaler.

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vegagitator commented

If you want to search for users by their profile information, learn more about the Views module and experiment creating different views with exposed filters. Installing the Advanced Help module with help you with Views and many other modules. You'll likely find many more uses for the views module on your site.

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waynerd commented

Thanks Vegagitator

I've installed CCK and Views and will now look into these other modules. I'm getting a little lost in the profile nodes vs roles thing but I'll do my reading and figure it out. Thanks for setting me a course.

Cheers!
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waynerd commented

I'm a bit confused on what I should be creating first. Do I create a new content type or (node type) first or do I create a role in admin/user/roles so I can select it in the Auto Assign Role module.

Basically I want to create five types of users with profiles for each.

It's a music community and I want to have:

- Artist/Bands (to create band profiles and post their shows etc)
- Venues (to create a Venue profile with contact info the ability to post shows that are occurring at their establishment)
- Resources (for music photographers, managers, labels etc)
- Fans (for fans of music to check out and comment on favorite bands etc)
- Writers/Contributors (for people I will eventually have reviewing CDs and shows that will more access to the site than regular users)

Each user registration will have different fields (EG: an address field for the Venues registration but not for the Fan registration)

Then the profiles would also be different collecting different information to display on each profile. Or would it be easier to have one simple user registration and then the ability to select one of the 5 options when creating a profile, or are they one in the same?

Now I understand that I will need to create "content types" for each but then what? I'm a little lost on the order of setting this up.

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amsgwp commented

I'm having a similar problem but have yet to find any thing that helps. My problem is less complicated but is pretty much the same.

I need two signup pages but I want them separate and not just a drop down to choose which role they want. Let me know if you figure anything out!

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waynerd commented

I've figured out how to create roles and different profiles but what I can't figure out is a way to have different user registration forms. I'd like my users to essentially fill out the user registration form that then becomes their profile. Maybe this isn't possible?

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m@rtijn commented

Waynerd, did you found a solution? I would like to use exactly the same functionality.

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fast3r commented

Hi, I've found a valuable solution in a drupal forum:

I'm using two modules for this:
1)Auto Assign Role (http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole)
This module allows users to select a role to sign up to

2) User Types (http://drupal.org/project/user_types)
This module allows you to specify profile fields per role so you can offer different roles different sign up fields.

This seems to work, but I'm still testing it!

I've got another similar problem: I need a particular type of user (identified by a role) subscriptions to be approved not by the administrator but by a specific user from another role related to them. Is it possible with an existing module?

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rosquilla commented

Hi,

i just wanted to ask if the described solution (autoassignrole and user_types) is working?

Did you get any problems? I need different profiles for different roles and i would like to know if the solutions works.

Thanks a lot for your Feedback!

Rosa

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ptam commented

I am using drupal-6.10 & unable to install autoassign module for drupal6.10.please help me

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lukebrenner commented

Hi there,

I have successfully enabled the user types module and this is exactly what I wanted but ran into a dilemma :

I have the 2 locked roles : anonymous and authenticated users.

I have created another 2 roles : candidates and agencies.

I have the flashvideo module installed and want to give the "candidates" the option to create video. This triggers a menu which I called "Upload content". BUT ... I want to disable this "create video content" for agencies.

Now the problem is that both "candidates" and "agencies" fall under "authenticated user" once they log in.

If I remove the "create video content" for authenticated user, both of them will not be able to upload videos.

If I enable it for authenticated user BUT enable it for "candidates" and disable it for "agency", it will work for BOTH of them which I don't want.

Where do I go from here ?

Any help much appreciated.

Thank you.

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lukebrenner commented

Anyone ?

Any help would be appreciated as this is quite vital for me.

Thank you kindly.

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brainless commented

Have you tried enabling it only for candidates role, and neither authenticated nor agency...

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BleuBiRTH commented

I'm breaking my head on this for a few days now. My site is ready to go live, but this is the only thing missing...

What i want is two different registration forms for two different roles. Each form is a contentprofile node with cck fields.

i'm playing for days now with the modules content profile, profile setup, pageroute and autoassign role. On top of that i'm using the latest patches for content profile and the pageroute module. No problem with the patches, but each time i seem to get stuck on a different problem that i can't seem to overcome...

Is there anyone who got this working for drupal 6???

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DizzyC commented

I have multiple User Types for my site and i simply need different signup forms (so different content types)
Any simple solution?

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cloudbull commented

HI, anything i can achieve dependent profile types in D7 ?

Many thanks
Keith

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